Gas-stove.



Patented Dec. l7, IQQI.

0 T S G (Application filed Nov, B, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

HENRY ADLER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAS-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 689,051, dated December 17, 1901.

Application filed November 8, 1900. Serial No, 35.79% (No modeLi T aZZ whom, itmoby concern new and useful Improvement in Gas-Stoves;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to gas-stoves, and has special reference to what are known as reflector gas-stoves.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and cheap form of gas-stove which will give as large a reflecting-surface as possible and at the same time provide for a great radiation of heat from such stove.

My invention consists, generally stated, in the novel arrangement,construction,and corn bination of parts, as hereinafter more specifically set forth and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to construct and use my improved gas-stove, I will describe the same more fully, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a face View of my improved stove. Fig. 2 is an end view-of the same. Fig. 3 is a top View thereof with the removable top removed, and Fig. 4 is a vertical central section of the same.

Like numerals of reference herein indicate like parts in each of the figures of the drawings.

My improved gas-stove is illustrated at 1 and is preferably formed of corrugated sheet metal, having the back 2 and sides 3, which are bent over and secured to said back 2 by the flanges 3 thereon. The front edges 4' of said sides 3 are projected out at an angle, as at 4., in order to fOI'IILtllG extended base 5 of said stove 1, and a lower front plate 6 is secured to said sides 3 over the front edges 4 by means of the bent flanges 6 thereon. Front legs 7 are secured to said stove by riveting the same to the sides 3 and lower front plate .6, and rear legs 8 are secured to said stove by riveting the same to the said sides 3 and back 2. An upper front plate 9 is secured to the sides 3, over the front edges 4 thereof, by means of the bent flanges 9 thereon, and colored pieces of glass 10 are secured within said upper front plate Secured to the lower front plate 6 by bolts ll 'is the corrugated reflector-plate 11,, which extends upwardly on a curve into the upper part of the stove 1 and rests by its flange 11 against a corrugated supporting-plate 12, bolted through its flanges 12 at 12 to the sides 3 of said stove. The supporting-plate 12 forms the air-spaces 13 and 13' on either side of the same, and the flange 11" at the upper part of the reflectowplate 11 ispr'ovided with the air-openings 14: therein, which communicate with the air-space 13 and act to supply air to the perforated burner 15, which extends across the stove 1 above the re [iectorplate 11 and is provided with a suitable cook or valve 15 thereon. The burner 15is supported in a metallic seat 16, secured on one side 3 of the stove, and an opening 16 is formed in the opposite side 3 adjacent to the valve 15 for use in lighting said burner 15 when desired. Corrugated side reflector-plates 17 are secured in the sides 3 of said stove adjacent to the reflector-plate 11, and the supportingplate 12 is provided with a forwardly-extending portion 18 over the burner 15, which is bent at 18 to form the rearwardly-extending portion 19 and is secured by bolts 19' through its flanges 19" to the back 2, and so acts to form the air-chamber 20 between the portions 18 and 19 and the waste heat or combustion chamber 21 above the portion 19, which leads to the escape-opening 22 in the back 2 of the stove. The top plate 23 eX- tends over the chamber 21 and is secured by its bent flanges 23, which fit around the back 2, sides 3, and front plate 9 of said stove, and hot-air pipes 2i pass through the chamber 21 and are secured to portion 19 of the supporting-plate 12 and to the top plate 23 by flanges 23" thereon. Fitting over the top plate 23 by its flanges 25 is the removable cover 25, which is provided with the openings 26 therein, and an ornamental handle 26 is secured to said cover 25.

The use and operation of my improved gasstove are as follows: When it is desired to start the tire after the burner 15 has been con nected to a suitable gas-supplypi pe, the valve 15 can be opened and a lighted match or taper placed in the opening 16, when the gas escaping from the perforated burner 15 will become ignited and the flames therefrom will be reflected by the reflector-plates l1 and .17 out into the apartment in which the stove is used, while the products of combustion from said burner 15 will pass into the chamber 21, through the same,and out through the escapeopening 22 into an escape-pipe connected thereto or into a chimney, as desired. Asthe flame from the burner 15 is adjacent to the forwardly-extending portion 18 of the supporting-plate 12 it will heat said portion 18, so that the heat therefrom will be radiated into the apartment, and as the stove becomes heatedin use the air passing up through the bottom of the base of the stove and up through the air-spaces 13and 13 to the burner 15 and air-chamber will become heated and the air from the space 13 will beprojeeted out through the front of the stove, While the air from the space 13' willpass from the chamber 20 up through the pipes 24 and out through the openings 26' in the cover 26 into the apartment.

The stove herein shown and described is adapted to be used with both natural and artificial gas, and when it is desired to use such stove for natural gas alone the reflector-plate l1 and burner 15 can be lowered and asbestos placed upon the face of the supporting-plate 12, the burner in this case being provided with the usual air-mixer. Various other modifications in the construction and design of the various parts of my improved stove may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Practical experience in the use of these stoves has demonstrated that they are capable of great heating, radiating, and reflecting power and are pleasing to the eye on account of their constructionand design. Being formed entirely of sheet metal, they can be easily and cheaply constructed, and the parts .of the same are not liable to become broken.

What i claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A gas-stove provided with a burner therein, a reflector-plate within said stove, a plate above and extending out in front of said burner and reflector, said plate dividing the stove into a combustion and an air-heating chamber, a top for the stove above said plate, and hot-air pipes connected to and supported by said plate and the top of the stove for the passage of hot air from the air-heating chamber.

2. A gas-stove provided with a burner therein, a reflector-plate within said stove, a plate above and extending out in front of said burner and reflector, said plate having a rearwardly-extending portion thereon for dividing the stove into a combustion and air-heating chamber, a top for the stove above said plate, and hot-air pipes connected to and supported by said rearwardly-extending portion and the top of the stove for the passage of hot air from the air-heating chamber.

3. A-gas-stove provided with a burner therein, a reflector-plate within said stove, a vertical supporting-plate adapted to form airpassages one of which leads to said burner, a horizontal plate above said burner and connected to said supporting-plate, said plate extending out in front of said burner and refiector and having a rearwardly-extending portion thereon, a top for the stove above said horizontal plate, and hot-air pipes communieating with the other air-passage, said pipes being connected toand supported by said rearwardly-extending portion and the top of the stove.

In testimony whereof I, the said HENRY ADLER, have hereunto set my hand.

HENRY ADLER. 

